The Goal

We intend to restore the fundamental necessities and environmental awareness of the species through the advocation of the most current understandings of who and what we truly are, coupled with how science, nature and technology (rather than religion, politics, and money) hold the keys to our personal growth, not only as individual human beings but as a civilization, both structurally and spiritually.

The Current System

We live in a society that produces scarcity. The consequence of this is that human beings must behave in self-preserving ways, even if it means they have to cheat and steal in order to get what they want. The monetary system REWARDS scarcity, waste, pollution, and overproduction.

What Must Be Done

We must begin to transition out of these oppressive ideals and move towards a system which is designed to support human beings...not force them to fight in order to survive. Our current methods of social conduct have proven to have no chance in resolving the problems of environmental destruction, human conflict, poverty, corruption, or any other issue the reduces the possibility of collective human sustainability on our planet. The bottom line is that in order to change things for the better fundamentally, you must begin to address the root causes. We have to start somewhere. The most important step is education.

The Venus Project

Consisting of the life work of social engineer Jacque Fresco, The Venus Project constitutes the application of the scientific method for social concern. Through the humane application of Science and Technology to social design and decision-making, we have the means to transform our tribalistic, scarcity driven, corruption filled environment into something exceeding more organized, balanced, humane, sustainable, and productive.

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If you are new to the movement and want to get involved, send an email to zeitmidmich@gmail.com and you will be added to the mailing list in which you will receive updates of the movements activities, including meeting times and locations.

Monday, October 4, 2010

October 2nd Meeting / NEXT MEETING October 16th

Friends,

Last Saturday's meeting was great. We spent most of the time discussing things for the new website. You can check it out at www.zeitmm.com. We are using the basic template from the movement but we are going to make our own changes to make the site as original as possible. The main page has been the biggest focus because we are creating the site for people who have not heard of the movement before. What a lot of sites (including the global site) have done is have paragraphs upon paragraphs of text that I think would certainly deter people from taking the time to understand what the movement stands for. We came up with having a series of slideshows. One will explain the Cashflow Quadrant (check it out on google if you haven't heard of it), and another that will show problems within Michigan (Unemployment data, etc). The point is to make the first page outline the problems since the whole site is dedicated to the solution.

WHAT WE NEED YOU TO DO: Submit any and all ideas and topics that should be covered on this main page. We have a few people working on this, but we need everybody's input if the website is going to be at all effective. Send any text or images to zeitmidmich@gmail.com

We had someone check out Michigan Energy Options. They are going to have a meeting this Saturday but is by invite only. Nate will be attending this meeting and will give us feedback about it at our next meeting on October 16th.

For those who didn't catch Peter's last radio address, Zeitgeist - Moving Forward is going to be released in January. His plan is to have a global screening of the film. This is a great idea and it is something we should start preparing for.

WHAT WE NEED YOU TO DO: Contact any local movie theaters and 1) see if they would let us rent a theater for a few hours to show the movie and host a Q and A, and 2) see how much it will cost. From what I understand theaters make the bulk of their money on concessions, so they may not have a problem letting us show the movie.

We are also going to be contacting MSU professors to get a Registered Student Organization moving quicker. Going right to the staff may be the best way of getting the wheels turning on this project since we don't have any MSU students in the chapter yet.

WHAT WE NEED YOU TO DO: If you are good at writing, please draft a letter to one of them. If you know any of the faculty at the school, more power to us. Send the draft to me at zeitmidmich@gmail.com and I will distribute it to the other members for feedback.

As stated above, the next meeting will be Saturday, October 16th. Again this will be at the main lounge of the MSU Union. Parking is a little rough because of the football season. There is a public parking garage on Bailey St. Its about 4 or 5 blocks from Abbot Road, so its a little bit to walk. The attendance for these meetings have not been too impressive the last couple months. If you are on this mailing list, you NEED to be at the meeting. I'm going to start insisting that everyone RSVPs for the meeting so that I know what kind of turnout we are going to have this way there isn't time wasted waiting for people to show up. At this point there is no reason why we can't have 20 people attend a meeting. So whether or not you can make it let me know at zeitmidmich@gmail.com

Hope to hear from you.

Peace,

C.B.
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